Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
The personal is political, but only to a point.
Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.
Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.
Live with no time-out.
Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?